I got stopped for the second time last night because my exhaust is loud due to an exhaust leak. (I had an accident last year and it has gotten progressively worse; there wasn't noise at first.) I didn't get a ticket; he let me off with a warning, as did the officer the last time. It's only a matter of time before I get a ticket. Plus, it's potentially health-threatening, though I do drive with all windows all the way down and I drive maybe 3 miles a day.
If I can get even a temporary fix for a few hundred dollars, that's better than a car payment every month, which, incidentally, is going to be high for someone with credit like mine. I just have no idea how much it will cost. I have a savings, but I don't want to exhaust it--pardon my pun.
As far as not driving, a bus pass costs $60, which is what I spend on gas anyway. I really don't spend a lot because I go to work and the grocery and Wallyworld. They're all within 2 miles of my apartment. Anything else I could plan for on a day off. However, on my 7:30 am days I'd have to leave the house at 6:30. To go 1 1/2 miles. I can walk it, but carrying all my stuff is hard on my messed-up spine. On late nights I'd have to pay for cabs, and that gets expensive. If I taylor my work schedule to the bus schedule, I will get less hours and therefore less pay.
It would be a relief to not have to drive anymore, as I have been in so many accidents that it stresses me to drive just a mile or two. I used to love driving, too. But working a ridiculous retail schedule on public transportation is so hard to do in a small town. In my hometown we had maybe 20 routes, some of which went 40 miles out with only one transfer fare. Here there are just a few and they don't even run on Sundays.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do but I think errands after dark are a bad idea because that's when I get stopped.
If I can get even a temporary fix for a few hundred dollars, that's better than a car payment every month, which, incidentally, is going to be high for someone with credit like mine. I just have no idea how much it will cost. I have a savings, but I don't want to exhaust it--pardon my pun.
As far as not driving, a bus pass costs $60, which is what I spend on gas anyway. I really don't spend a lot because I go to work and the grocery and Wallyworld. They're all within 2 miles of my apartment. Anything else I could plan for on a day off. However, on my 7:30 am days I'd have to leave the house at 6:30. To go 1 1/2 miles. I can walk it, but carrying all my stuff is hard on my messed-up spine. On late nights I'd have to pay for cabs, and that gets expensive. If I taylor my work schedule to the bus schedule, I will get less hours and therefore less pay.
It would be a relief to not have to drive anymore, as I have been in so many accidents that it stresses me to drive just a mile or two. I used to love driving, too. But working a ridiculous retail schedule on public transportation is so hard to do in a small town. In my hometown we had maybe 20 routes, some of which went 40 miles out with only one transfer fare. Here there are just a few and they don't even run on Sundays.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do but I think errands after dark are a bad idea because that's when I get stopped.
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